Launching a campus (or two)
From a nuts and bolts perspective, launching a campus could be overwhelming (check out the plans below). But for anyone who loves seeing God work through new things, it is invigorating.
Today, a team of us walked through a potential location in Highland. Then, I had lunch with our campus pastors (Doug, Jared, and Andy) and Debby Albrecht, our new Children’s Ministry Staff member over all campuses. As we move from 2 campuses to 4, we know we will experience the benefit of more synergy and have to work through the challenge of more complexity.
We have a good framework for it, though. Today, we reviewed our last meeting where we outlined 30 day goals and 6 month goals. We are in great shape for both campuses. Still, today was a gut check to look ahead at what we need to accomplish in the next 2 weeks, the next 6 weeks, and the next 90 days. Jared and Andy walked away with intense lists!
Will you pray for the next major areas as these campuses develop?
–Staffing – worship and children’s ministry are the key areas where we like to have at least part-time staff.
–Launch Team/Lead Team – It would be great to have 100 people on a launch team. Everyone will need to serve as we fill out the volunteer matrix needed for launch. A smaller Lead Team of 8-10 to help the campus pastor guide the launch process.
–Facility – It would be great to have a 7 day a week facility, but we might be looking at Sunday only. Lots of variables here!
–Funding – The Jesus Mission has been successful, but our campus pastors are also doing fundraising on their own like a church planter would.
–Outreach – We will do advertising around the opening Sunday (projected for September 26, 2010), but at this stage it is about investing in the communities. We want to serve them and have a positive presence there before anyone sees an advertisement.
We’ll see each of these come together by both hard work and God’s hand…it happens that way all the time around here!
.Real.Greg.Lee. 